Davie Town Hall New Look Almost Done

February 15, 1985|By Jim Erickson, Staff Writer

DAVIE — Most of the landscaping at the Town Hall complex has been completed, and construction of a covered walkway and gazebo on the east side of the building should be done in about two weeks, Public Works Director Bruce Bernard said Thursday.

``It`s like the difference between night and day,`` Bernard said of the transformed Town Hall complex. About 100 trees, 1,700 shrubs and 49,000 square feet of sod were used in the $33,254 landscaping project done by Weekley Brothers, Inc.

A cement walkway leads from Orange Drive, past a 25-foot-tall oak, to the front doors of Town Hall.

The covered wooden walkway now under construction will wind around the east side of the complex from the recently completed 300-space parking lot behind Town Hall to the veranda outside the Town Council chambers.

The former Town Hall parking lot, which was in front of the building, has been completely sodded over.

The covered walkway is connected to a small gazebo, and a wood-chip walkway -- bordered by railroad ties and scattered with benches -- will wind from the gazebo to the cement path in front of Town Hall, 6591 Orange Drive, Bernard said.

The trees planted on the Town Hall site include live oak, crepe myrtle, Jerusalem thorn, sable palm, and podocarpus, a type of fernlike shrub. Cactus and yucca accent the Western theme of the cedar-sided building.

Those cedar clapboards will receive a rejuvenating coat of wood preservative/ color enhancer that brings out the reddish-brown tones in the wood.

Further landscaping is planned around Fire Station One, adjacent to Town Hall, after that building is converted into office space for city employees.